The tadpole of Rhinella azarai (Gallardo, 1965) with comments on the larval morphology in the Rhinella granulosa species group (Anura: Bufonidae)

BLOTTO BORIS; PEREYRA MARTÏN; BALDO DIEGO

JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

SOC STUDY AMPHIBIANS REPTILES

Lugar: Salt Lake City; Año: 2014 vol. 48 p. 434 - 438

0022-1511

ABSTRACT.?We describe the larval morphology of Rhinella azarai, a medium-sized species of the Rhinella granulosa group. None of the morphological characters allow the larvae of R. azarai to be distinguished unequivocally from those of other species in the group. However, the tadpoles show a distinctive set of character states shared with some species of the group, which may represent putative synapomorphies of the R. granulosa group or internal clades